A Clean Break: A New Strategy For Securing The Realm

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (commonly known as the "Clean Break" report) is a policy document that was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle for Benjamin Netanyahu, the then Prime Minister of Israel. The report explained a new approach to solving Israel's security problems in the Middle East with an emphasis on "Western values". It has since been criticized for advocating an aggressive new policy including the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.

“We have been educated to such a fineor dullpoint that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what its all about. We dont trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. Its the democratic way.”—Henry Miller (18911980)

“We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.”—Hannah Arendt (19061975)

“What a cheerful rhyme! Clean not mean!Been not seen! Not tiredexpired!We must now decide about place.We decide that place is the big weeping faceAnd the other abstract lace of the race.”—Allen Tate (18991979)

“That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.”—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)